Multi-modal representation learning by pretraining has become an increasing interest due to its easy-to-use and potential benefit for various Visual-and-Language~(V-L) tasks. However its requirement of large volume and high-quality vision-language pairs highly hinders its values in practice. In this paper, we proposed a novel label-augmented V-L pretraining model, named LAMP, to address this problem. Specifically, we leveraged auto-generated labels of visual objects to enrich vision-language pairs with fine-grained alignment and correspondingly designed a novel pretraining task. Besides, we also found such label augmentation in second-stage pretraining would further universally benefit various downstream tasks. To evaluate LAMP, we compared it with some state-of-the-art models on four downstream tasks. The quantitative results and analysis have well proven the value of labels in V-L pretraining and the effectiveness of LAMP.
@article{arxiv.2012.04446,
title = {LAMP: Label Augmented Multimodal Pretraining},
author = {Jia Guo and Chen Zhu and Yilun Zhao and Heda Wang and Yao Hu and Xiaofei He and Deng Cai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.04446},
year = {2020}
}